Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Leicester
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best Leicester restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 5 restaurants in Leicester and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Leicester restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
Featured Leicester Restaurants
1. John's House
British, Modern restaurant in Mountsorrel
139-141 Loughborough Road - LE12
North of Leicester, in part of the East Midlands not over-burdened with top eateries, John Duffin’s family-owned venue is a particularly high achiever. Now in its tenth year, it’s part of the family farm (Stonehurst Farm) where he grew up and which helps supply the kitchen (and there are also cottages available for overnight stays). Choose in the evening from a five-course or seven-course tasting menu for £100 and £120 per person respectively: “excellent accessible cuisine at a realistic price” that’s “always a delight”.
2. Kayal
Indian restaurant in Leicester
153 Granby St - LE1
“Wonderful Keralan cuisine” – “fresh and full of flavour”; “mainly vegetarian but also excellent seafood” – is on the menu at this 20-year-old Leicester flagship near ‘The Tigers’ stadium. (It’s nowadays part of a group that now has spin-off venues in Nottingham, Leamington Spa and West Byfleet.)
3. Tandem
Indian restaurant in Leicester
59-59a Highcross Street - LE1
2021 Review: Cyrus Todiwala OBE, the acclaimed Bombay-born TV-chef behind London’s Café Spice Namaste, has chosen a Grade II listed building in the city-centre for his first restaurant outside London; and will feature five separate areas over two floors, including a bar, casual dining and fine dining room. For the town with the biggest Diwali festival outside India, Leicester has always curiously lacked a go-to Indian dining destination – maybe this is it?
4. Bobby’s
Indian restaurant in Leicester
154-156 Belgrave Rd - LE4
“Ordered too much and enjoyed it all” sums up the appeal of this Gujarati vegetarian, a Leicester institution with “lovely staff”, that opened on the city‘s ‘Golden Mile’ in 1976 and is now run by Dharmesh, son of the late founder Bhagwanjibhai Lakhani and his wife Manglaben. Top Menu Tip – book ahead for the £25 bottomless afternoon tea, hailed by Rick Stein on his BBC Food Stories show last year as an ‘Indian version of tea at The Ritz’.
5. The Joiners
British, Modern restaurant in Bruntingthorpe
Church Walk - LE17
With its oak beams and flagstone floors, this family-run rural gastropub between Leicester and Lutterworth continues to win a solid thumbs up from Midlands-based reporters in our annual diners’ poll. The fairly traditional, bistro-style cooking (e.g. chicken liver parfait, steak or seabass, panna cotta) is in a more ambitious mould than typical pub grub.
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